28 Teamwork Quotes To Inspire Leaders and Collaboration
Whether you're part of a small team or a global workforce, these teamwork quotes will inspire you to harness the remarkable potential that emerges when individuals come together as a harmonious, unstoppable force. Get ready to be inspired, motivated, and reminded of the boundless power of teamwork. These quotes may make you laugh, ponder, or perhaps even challenge your perspective.
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” - Steve Jobs
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” - Henry Ford
“It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” Charles Darwin
“None of us is as smart as all of us.“ - Ken Blanchard
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.“ - H.E. Luccock
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” - Booker T. Washington
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.“ - Vidal Sassoon
“A single leaf working alone provides no shade.“ - Chuck Page
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.“ - Isaac Newton
“Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.“ - Vince Lombardi
“None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.“ - Mother Teresa
"No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team." – Reid Hoffman
“A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues.“ - Lee Iacocca
"In union, there is strength." –Aesop
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.” – Idowu Koyenikan
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” Michael Jordan
"None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful." - Mother Teresa
“Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.“ - Helen Keller
“Teamwork makes the dream work.“ - John Maxwell
“Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results” – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
“Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.“ - Patrick Lencioni
“Not finance, not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.” — Patrick Lencioni
“A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.“ - Swahili Proverb
“Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.” –Vesta M. Kelly
"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." –Ryunosuke Satoro
“Gettin’ good players is easy. Gettin’ ’em to play together is the hard part.” – Casey Stengel
It’s interesting to notice that, when comparing teamwork and individual quotes, how many more quotes are from non-western cultures on the power of teamwork (see our sister blog on individual leadership quotes to compare for yourself). Perhaps representing the western culture of individuality versus the more collaborative collectivistic cultures in the far-east and Africa.
Overall, inspirational quotes are fun and can be useful when used judiciously. These teamwork quotes offer quick bursts of motivation and positivity, but their effectiveness ultimately depends on how they are integrated into one's life. These teamwork quotes are useful for occasional sparks for reflection and action.
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